Radiation therapy with 50 Gy was significantly related to shorter implant survival in mandibular bone. Survival was lowest in grafted bone. Time of implant placement had no statistically significant influence on survival under the conditions of this study. Although implant survival is lower in irradiated mandibles, implants significantly facilitate prosthodontic treatment and enhance outcome of oral rehabilitation in cancer patients.
Oral squamous cellular carcinoma is a malignant tumor with poor prognosis and therefore the discovery of early markers to discriminate malignant from normal cells would be of critical importance in clinical diagnosis. Subcellular fractions from oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and control samples, enriched in mitochondrial and cytosolic proteins, were analyzed by 2-DE, followed by MALDI-TOF-MS. Twenty proteins showed altered expression levels in OSCC; 14 were up- and 6 were down-regulated in comparison with the control samples. For 11 proteins, cofilin, C-reactive protein precursor, creatine kinase m-chain, fatty acid-binding protein, keratin type II, myosin light chain 2 and 3, nucleoside diphosphate kinase A, phosphoglycerate mutase 1, plakoglobulin, and retinoic acid-binding protein II, it is shown for the first time that they are differentially expressed in OSCC. Proteins with highly up-regulated levels may be of interest as potential diagnostic markers and consequently of clinical interest.
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